Consulting the cosmos...
Consulting the cosmos...
Precision charting with AI interpretation of the Twelve Life Palaces
Zi Wei Dou Shu — praised as the 'King of Chinese Astrology' — places over a hundred stars into twelve life palaces with the Purple Star (Zi Wei) as the anchor. The Life Palace sets your overall tone, the Wealth Palace reveals your financial style, the Career Palace maps professional direction, the Marriage Palace gauges relationship depth… each palace governs a life domain, and the star combinations within paint a unique portrait from personality to life trajectory.
Unlike Ba Zi, which speaks in Five Elements and Stems, Zi Wei Dou Shu uses palaces and stars as its language — reading it feels more like unfolding a life map. TianJiGe's engine handles the complex star placement calculations automatically, and AI walks you through each palace — making the chart readable even without any background in Chinese astrology.
Enter your birth date, time, and basic info.
Start by examining the palace structure and main star placements in the generated chart.
Use the full interpretation to understand key palaces and what to focus on at your current life stage.
The Life Palace is the entrance to the chart — the base tone of character and life direction. Identify where it sits and which main stars occupy it; the other palaces are read relative to it.
How to read the Life PalaceThe Body Palace shows where you put effort later in life. The Life Palace is the base color; the Body Palace is the practice ground. Read both together.
Life Palace vs Body PalaceMarriage, Wealth, Career, and Travel each govern a theme, but they are not twelve islands. Career should connect Life, Wealth, and Travel; relationships should connect Marriage and Fortune.
What the twelve palaces meanThe natal chart is the base map. Major limits set a ten-year climate; the year is the trigger. See which palaces the current limit lights up, then whether annual transformations activate them.
How to read major and annual cyclesLu, Quan, Ke, and Ji change a star’s tone — they are not simple lucky or unlucky labels.
Read intimacy and partnership together with the Fortune and Travel palaces.
How money arrives and how it is spent, checked against the Career Palace as the income platform.
Occupation and pace of growth; the Life Palace shows whether you can carry that pressure.
Movement, change, and the outer stage — often lit together with career or relationships.
How twelve palaces, main stars, transformations, and major limits form a readable chart.
If you prefer a structured chart with Five Elements focus, start with Ba Zi. If you're drawn to understanding life through palace themes, start with Zi Wei. Both perspectives complement each other nicely.
Absolutely. As different life themes become relevant, you can return to specific palaces for fresh perspective and reflection.
Understand the key concepts behind this tool before going deeper.
Chart Correction
Zi Wei is more hour-sensitive than Ba Zi. True solar time folds clock time back to the local sun. Crossing a two-hour boundary can rewrite the Life Palace and the whole star map.
Calendar Conversion
A leap month is an extra month on the lunar calendar, not an extra palace. The Life Palace follows lunar month order plus hour. Convert the leap date to a solar moment, then apply leap-month fix rules.
Life Palace
The Life Palace is the front door of a Zi Wei chart—where you read someone's tone, their style, and how they meet the world.
Twelve Palaces
The twelve palaces split a life into themes—and each one is read together with its stars, its transformations, and the palaces around it.
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